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A Child of the Jago : A Novel Set in the London Slums in the 1890s
Overview
This novel, first published in 1896, is the story of Dick Perrot, born and bred in the Jago; but it is also a brilliant portrait of the community. The Jago is a London slum where crime and violence are the only way of life, and from which there is no escape for the inhabitants. Only the characters themselves are fictional: Morrison's descriptions of the fearful physical conditions are based directly on what he saw. He conjures up an extra-ordinarily vivid picture of a world which, even as he wrote, was about to vanish in one of the first of the slum clearance scheme.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780897333924
- ISBN-10: 0897333926
- Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
- Publish Date: August 2005
- Dimensions: 7.92 x 4.97 x 0.43 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
- Page Count: 208
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